While the white UV tattoo reacts to even faint amounts of black light even if it is only a mild reaction, the red one needs to be very close to the light source with very little other light to react and even then it is not particularly vivid. Adding the UV red onto it did give it some of its colour back but as far as the UV side of things it didnt really work the way I would have liked. I got it put over the top of an already existing tattoo that needed to be touched up a bit anyway. My coloured UV tattoo on the other hand has come with its own set of issues. When it was first done it was highly visable as the photos show, however it did settle down a little bit after a couple of days. At almost two years old my UV tattoo is almost invisible under normal lighting conditions, if you don’t know its there you would never see it, however if you look closely you can still see the detail, it also has a slight yellowish colour to it, not enough for me to be able to get a photo of it, but its there. When you get any tattoo there is scarring that takes about a year to heal, the difference with a normal tattoo is that the colour of the ink hides the scar, with a clear UV tattoo you dont have that luxury. While the white ink contains no colour and so itself is essentially invisible on your skin, the scarring from it being applied is not so while you may think its a cool idea to get swear words and penises drawn accross your face, I would suggest this is not a good idea, it took me about a year for the scarring to stop being easily visable. Only the plain white ink which looks like water under normal light and reacts in the same way a white T-shirt does under UV lights becomes almost invisible, all other colours are visible under normal lighting conditions, they are just not very bright and vibrant. The approval given by the FDA is for their use on animals that are consumed by humans, no tattooing ink black light reactive or otherwise has been FDA approved for use on humans.Īnother common assumption with the UV tattoos is that they are invisible under normal light, they are not. However this approval is not for their use in tattooing humans. There have been issues with some of the older UV inks leading to serious health issues but the newer inks made by either Crazy Chameleon or Skin Candy are much safer and have been approved by the American FDA. When I tell people about my UV tattoos a lot of people assume they are glow in the dark, they are not, products that glow in the dark contain phosphorous and having this injected into your skin would almost certainly lead to cancer. UV tattoos or black light tattoos have been around for a while but are still not very common.
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